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I lived in Stadhampton from 1949 - 1952. When I was eight years old living in Rutland my parents split up leaving my Dad with three small boys rather suddenly. As was often the case in those days I was shipped out and came to ...Read more

A memory of Stadhampton in 1949 by Tim Elliott

My parents, had a plot of land on which they built a holiday chalet, and my older brothers and I had a wonderful childhood there. Fishing, swiming in the locks, walking throught the woods full of bluebells, and blackberry picking. As you ...Read more

A memory of Hoddesdon in 1953

I started at Hurn in 1980. I remember having to go to London in the summer to John Lewis for the huge uniform & kit. Having come from a poor background it was amazing that I was going to a private school and how ...Read more

A memory of Hurn in 1980 by James Henderson

My Mother and I arrived in 1974, from a divorced Warrington and the dilapidation of the north-west. Merrily drinking tea and eating custard tarts in the bare miners' cottage living room, sitting in a deck chair and eating from a ...Read more

A memory of Gwespyr in 1977 by James Harrison

My memories of a happy childhood: living in the farm house and the horses, goats, hens, geese, dogs that my father bred for the police, and the wonderful summers and freezing winters..and my dad self employed selling wood ...Read more

A memory of Jarrow in 1950 by Pauline Galbraith

I was 9 and My mother Vi worked part time at the Hotel doing afternoon teas. Phil and Betty Roddis managed the Hotel. They had just had a young daughter, Phillipa. I spent many a day within the hotel. I remember the ...Read more

A memory of Seascale in 1957 by Paul Brookes

We lived at Moorlands in The Marld, Ashtead, around the years 1948 to 1952. It was a large house with a very large garden and orchard. There was also a tennis court. I can remember being sent to the upper village to have the battery for the ...Read more

A memory of Ashtead in 1940

We moved from Northumberland to Collyhurst after the war. My Dad worked at Victoria Station and my Mum got a job at Phillips Soles and Heels. We lived on Knoll Street which was next to the railway and had the gas works at the ...Read more

A memory of Collyhurst in 1949 by Yvonne Tomczuk

Hi, I was born in Old Lane at the bottom of the road in 'Oakdean', as it was called then. I had many happy times running round the village in the many woods and fields. I had 2 sisters and 1 brother - our surname is Moss. I had ...Read more

A memory of Tatsfield in 1963 by Paul Moss

I remember Arlesey with great affection where I lived in Hospital Road from 1941 to 1950. I attended the village school next to the Three Tuns pub, leaving at 14 to become a trainee lab. assistant in the path. lab. of the local Fairfield ...Read more

A memory of Arlesey in 1941 by Bill Witney